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Nature Makes Up Everything Truly, we cannot exist without nature and no matter where one may hold nature in their personal set of ethics, there is indeed, no way to escape her influence. I argue in this essay that nature exists all around us, makes us up, and is an inescapable law of our reality that…

Life thrives on earth, we see it everywhere. Despite numerous mass extinctions, life comes back and rebounds. New species are born entirely — life keeps working to inch again and again in a forwards direction, despite the constant adversary of extinction. We see this around us, and we see this in the fossil record. But…

Struggling in the Urban Grid 80.7% of people live in cities as of 2010, says the recent US Census. Just 100 years ago, most people, instead, lived in the “country”. Within a very short amount of time, our entire United States population has gone from country living to urban living. Terms like “urban growth” have…

In a time when we are possibly going through Earth’s resources faster than ever before, it only makes the greatest common sense to know what we are spending. If I sat there and made purchases on my debit card, infinitely, and never bothered to look at the balance, you might think that I was financially…

What are Detritivores (aka ‘decomposers’)? Nature relies upon the cycling of matter (between biotic and abiotic forms) in order to be utilized again in new life. For example, a leaf decays upon the forest floor, and of course, these valuable elements that make up the leaf, must be brought back into the ecosystem and utilized.…

The Ocean is The Master The mighty ocean has no master; the mighty ocean merely masters whatever is entrained in its grasp. There is no fighting it or overpowering it or fatiguing it; the ocean wins every time and always has the last word. Like the truest Zen Master, the ocean carries on in its inhalations…

What is Time? This is an epic and awesome short documentary made in 1973. This movie changed my perception of time greatly. For example, our measurement of “one second” relates to earth and sun motion at the time of the year 1900, as these times are not linear and our speed around the sun, the…

What is Nature? Whether taking a walk in the park, or discussing a killer Typhoon, we consider both to be something called “Nature”. When we talk of space and time, we talk too as if these are products of “Nature”. Well, what exactly is nature? Merriam-Webster says that nature is, a noun, and, “(1) the physical world…

Economy and Ecology: Enemies or One-in-the-Same? In the world of environmentalism and in the world of business, often lines are drawn and there can be a perceived battle between “business” and “nature”. To environmentalists, it is development and business and maybe even “capitalism” that is destroying nature, and to business people, it is the “environmentalists” and “expensive…

Why is Ecological Knowledge Lacking? In an age of information and constant exchange, why don’t we understand the patterns and pulses of Mother Nature? The age of Cities and Urban Density We live in a new time in all of human history. For most of human history, human beings have lived as hunter gathers and…